The Bloody Spectacle: On Vladimir Alexandrov’s “To Break Russia’s Chains”
Douglas Smith reads “To Break Russia’s Chains” by Vladimir Alexandrov and ponders the legacy of notorious terrorist Boris Savinkov.
Douglas Smith reads “To Break Russia’s Chains” by Vladimir Alexandrov and ponders the legacy of notorious terrorist Boris Savinkov.
Douglas Smith investigates two recent books on foreign intervention in the Russian Civil War.
Douglas Smith is chilled by “This Is Not Propaganda: Adventures in the War Against Reality” by Peter Pomerantsev.
Douglas Smith explores “Catherine & Diderot,” a “scintillating, sophisticated, and nuanced” book by Robert Zaretsky.
Douglas Smith investigates “The Race to Save the Romanovs” by Helen Rappaport.
Douglas Smith on “Memory Laws, Memory Wars,” by Nikolay Koposov, which “makes clear the dangers in trying to legislate our understanding of the past.”
“Russia in Flames” by Laura Engelstein, “Red Famine” by Anne Applebaum, and the legacies of the first communist state.